CV - Meg Pirrung

MEGPIRRUNGCurriculumVitae
10943 E 28TH PLACE, DENVER CO, 80238 - 2165268802 - [email protected]
CURRENT POSITION PhD candidate
Goerg Lab
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
[2013:]
EDUCATION
[2010:]
AWARDS &
GRANTS
Computational Biology Graduate Program
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Biochemistry Graduate Program
University of Colorado Boulder
[2008:2010]
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bowling Green State University, College of Arts and
Sciences
[2004:2008]
NLM Training Grant
NLM Training Grant
NLM Training Grant
NLM Training Grant
Sol Siegal Scholarship Program
NASA SEMAA Next Generation Pioneer
Sol Siegal Scholarship Program
Sol Siegal Scholarship Program
[SPOKEN|SCRIPTING|PROGRAMMING]
LANGUAGES
English
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Japanese *****
Spanish
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Python
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Javascript *****
HTML
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Java
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c++
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Jul 2012
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Sep 2006
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Aug 2005
SKILLS & TOOLS
Adobe Suite
d3.js
JQuery/UI
CSS
Bioinformatics
Shell
Wordpress CMS
MEGPIRRUNGCurriculumVitae
PREVIOUS
POSITIONS
PORTFOLIO
.com
Teaching Assistant 2012
Marine Biological Laboratory STAMPS program
Robotics Teacher 2010
University of Colorado Upward Bound Program
Graduate Mentor 2010
University of Colorado SMART Program
Undergraduate Research Assistant 2006:2008
Bowling Green State University
Computer Consultant 2005
Residential Computing Connection, Bowling Green State University
Web Design Intern 2005
Thumbprint Ltd., formerly ECRM-Online, Solon Ohio
Graphic Design Intern 2003
NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland Ohio
PUBLICATIONS
Bacteria from Diverse Habitats Colonize and Compete in the Mouse Gut; Seedorf et al. (Cell 2014)
EMPeror: a tool for visualizing high-throughput microbial community data; Vázquez-Baeza Y, Pirrung M, Gonzalez A,
Knight R.(Gigascience 2013)
Replenishing our defensive microbes; Ursell LK, Van Treuren W, Metcalf JL, Pirrung M, Gewirtz A, Knight R. (Bioessays 2013)
Evidence for a persistent microbial seed bank throughout the global ocean; Gibbons SM, Caporaso JG, Pirrung M,
Field D, Knight R, Gilbert JA. (Proc Natl Acad Sci 2013)
TopiaryExplorer: An application for connecting large phylogenetic trees to environmental metadata; Meg
Pirrung, Ryan Kennedy, J. Gregory Caporaso, Jesse Stombaugh, Doug Wendel, and Rob Knight (Bioinformatics 2011)
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data.; Caporaso et al. (Nat Methods 2010)
PRESENTATIONS
ieeevis doctoral colloquium 2014 talk and poster presentation: “Visualizing Microbiome Data for Scientific Analysis &
Communication”
ROCKY 2013 talk and poster presentation: “Experimental Determination of Useful and Informative Visualizations of Microbial
Ecology Data for Public and Scientific Audiences”
BioVis 2013 Poster Presentation; "Experimental Determination of Useful and Informative Visualizations of Microbial Ecology Data for
Public and Scientific Audiences"
Open Hardware Summit 2012 Talk; "Envobe"
VIZBI 2011 Poster Presentation; "TopiaryExplorer"
ROCKY 2010 Poster presentation; "TopiaryExplorer"
ROCKY 2009 Poster presentation; "QIIME (Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology) Dynamic Rarefaction Graph"
RNA 2007 Poster presentation; "Automated RNA multiple sequence alignment using hybrid Stochastic Context-Free Grammars/
Markov Random Fields to model base clusters and motif swaps"
BGSU Research Conference 2007 Poster presentation; "Automated RNA multiple sequence alignment using hybrid Stochastic
Context-Free Grammars/Markov Random Fields to model base clusters and motif swaps"
NASA SEMAA Next Generation Pioneer Speech, 2006
Robotics programming demonstration for Dr. Adena Williams Loston, Associate Administrator for Education at NASA, 2003, NASA Glenn
Research Aerospace Education Laboratory
CODE SAMPLES
https://github.com/meganap